I reload about 10k hulls a year at this point. Advice...like all reloading, buy components in bulk.
Frankly, though, with the price of lead shot being what it is, unless you are going to be shooting regularly....lets say once a week shooting fourb or so boxes of shells at a clip.....you may be better off just buying the cheap sales shells at Walmart. You save a few pennies per shell - maybe - loading your own. It is not like metallic cartridges,not with shot at $35 - $40 a bag.
Ten cents for shot, two/three cents per primer, about two cents per wad, and three to five cents for 18 grains of powder.....at least seventeen cents per hull....more like twenty for most folk. At my club, a flat of shells costs $57 for 250 shells...23 cents each for 1 1/8oz at 1200fps. And no work ordering components or assembling shells. Walmart Federals or Winchesters are a few pennies more than that.
If, however, you are shooting a lot, those pennies add up.
Pete
Last edited by PeteD; 09/21/12.
